David Gergen: McCain’s “Moses” ad is code for calling Obama “uppity”
posted at 6:08 pm on August 3, 2008 by Allahpundit
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In which the single dumbest, most paranoid racial charge of the campaign is recycled on national television by a former presidential advisor and current Harvard professor. I said it before but it bears repeating: If you take this logic to its conclusion, there’s literally no non-racist way to accuse a member of a minority group of having an outsized ego. Any synonym you can conjure — elitist, arrogant, “megalomaniac narcissist” (to quote Hitchens) — can all happily be dismissed as “code,” regardless of whether the subject might in fact (a) display his very own presidential seal, (b) be known to describe rural voters in terms that call to mind Cletus the slackjawed yokel on “The Simpsons,” and (c) oh, by the way, lead his very own cult with himself as godhead.
George Will makes a point I made myself last week, that the irony of all these bad-faith charges of racism is that most of the GOP’s knocks on Obama’s ego are straight out of the playbook they used against “haughty, French-looking Democrat” John Kerry. Granted, there was no “Moses” ad for Waffles, but that’s because most people hated him; Obama is adored to an absurdly iconic extent, especially vis-a-vis his actual accomplishments (in Lindsey Graham’s words, “fame without portfolio”), which is why he gets goofed on as leading people to the Promised Land whereas Kerry got the windsurfer treatment. (Although there are plenty of goofs on Obama along the same dorky windsurfer lines to be found if you look around.) The real “tell” here, though, is what Gergen offers as further evidence to support his point — that McCain, when asked about affirmative action, said he opposes quotas. A perfectly mainstream conservative position, and certainly one McCain would also hold if he was facing Hillary, but because he’s facing Obama McCain’s no longer allowed to talk about it. Presumably he should be responding to questions on the subject with a terse “no comment” lest halfwits like this whip out their secret racial decoder rings to tell America what he “really” meant.
That’s okay. The more ridiculous the left’s demagoguery becomes, the more credibility they lose with voters. See, e.g., the new Rasmussen poll on McCain’s Britney ad. Not only did a vast majority see nothing racist about it (Democrats themselves are evenly divided) but fully 53% found St. Barack’s “dollar bill” comment over the line, including 44% of blacks. Keep talking, Gergen. Click the image to watch.
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What is uppity, is Gergen’s belief that he makes sense or that anyone really cares what he thinks.
pat on August 3, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Didn’t a conservative blogger just predict this the other day?
Connie on August 3, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Gergen is crap in a suit.
People aren’t buying this inexperienced overweening dipshit (BHO) as being any kind of national leader, and it’s driving them crazy.
TexasJew on August 3, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Yeah, TJ,
That’s why Obama has lead in every single poll taken.
I don’t think you anger management dropouts are gonna win this time…
alphie on August 3, 2008 at 6:19 PM
This guy really belongs at Harvard- a perfect example of a sheltered life and a steady leftward drift over the course of his miserable little life.
Much like a left-handed relief pitcher, you’ll always have a media role if your a self-hating Republican.
The great thing about Hot Air et al is that the media and scum like Gergen are gonna find out that the “racist” smear if you disagree with their God, isn’t going to fly.
Their game is evil ,obvious, and going to fail.
jjshaka on August 3, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Two good takedowns in one post…I liked your characterization of Gergen..reminded me of a Kenneth Branagh movie with Robin Williams…Robin Williams called him a ‘cockroach in a cheap suit’. I’ve always liked that image and carry it with me every time I’ve had any dealings with attorneys of any kind.
austinnelly on August 3, 2008 at 6:19 PM
I haven’t had Cracker Jacks in years. Today’s kids get all the good prizes. :(
artlover on August 3, 2008 at 6:20 PM
David Gergen - the very definition of a RINO. I never liked him and I never will. He used to be paired with jowly Mark Shields on PBS as an alleged conservative but he wound up agreeing with Shields 90% of the time.
Hilts on August 3, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Can I still say “Cracker Jacks”?
artlover on August 3, 2008 at 6:22 PM
This man is a total dumb ass. He’s a Harvard prof, nuff said.
thekingtut on August 3, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Great line!
Hilts on August 3, 2008 at 6:24 PM
This schlock is always held up by the MSM as some type of moderate. He has never come up with an original thought. He could be lobotomized tomorrow and I doubt anyone would know the difference.
JonRoss on August 3, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Thanks David for giving us a glimpse into an Obama presidency.
Any criticism will be met with race card, after all that trumps all right?
The Dave Chappelle skit “monsters” comes to mind when I hear these arguments.
TroubledMonkey on August 3, 2008 at 6:26 PM
When they come at you in a frenzy, you know you got under their skin.
The Left is in a real fluster right now…they bought into Obama’s hope and change canard and tossed Hillary (and any other potential candidate) on the rubbish pile. Now, they are frothing at the mouth to get Obama elected primarily so they don’t have to admit he is an empty suit, but also so they don’t get defeated in November and watch the Democratic Party split apart along ethnic lines.
They cannot admit for a moment that their hope and change candidate is nothing but a South Side Chicago hustler who has played them all along. They have committed to perhaps the least experienced Presidential candidate the United States has seen…ever.
coldwarrior on August 3, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Anger management is for losers. I bet if you take a poll and ask people if they’d rather work, or sit in their house and abuse themselves all day, a majority would rather sit home and see how much pudding they could slather on themselves. Doesn’t make it right or any less disgusting. Human nature. Obama is a blivet; 20 pounds of annoying liberal b.s in a 10 pound bag. Take him off the prompter and he sounds like Mumbles from Dick Tracy. If the GOP had run a real candidate instead of Captain Amnesty, Obama would get his backside handed to him. Be happy your stupid candidate is doing well in the polls, but please don’t try to say it’s because he’s so great. It’s marketing, nothing more.
austinnelly on August 3, 2008 at 6:26 PM
These clowns keep feeding the resentment the militant Obama supporters cling to, and it will produce a cataclysmic explosion November 5th.
rockhauler on August 3, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Horsespit! Obama wiull always have a =slight lead in the polla b/c of “the Bradley effect” - too many wimpy guilt ridden Caucasians feeling embarrassed to admit that they will not vote for the Annointed One.
Hilts on August 3, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Geez I hit post before preview.
1. polls not polla
2. will not wiull
Hilts on August 3, 2008 at 6:28 PM
you ‘fair and balanced’ groupies need to stop spinning! if you actually go and watch the original Technicolor print of the Ten Commandments, not the poor imitation version we get on television, there is frankly NO DOUBT that Moses was indeed high yellow. Spin all you want, the facts speak for themselves.
AdrianG on August 3, 2008 at 6:28 PM
“In addition to serving in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, Gergen was also a campaign staffer for George H.W. Bush’s 1980 presidential campaign”
Gergen is one of you guys, cold.
You know when neocons start labeling their own as “lefties” their in a real snit.
It’s tactics like that that made the Republicans lose Congress…
alphie on August 3, 2008 at 6:29 PM
What funny is isthat every election cycle is the same: the Democrats make crap up about “code words” and dig up the usual
bromides about “negative campaigning”.
It’s election cycle 101 passive aggression from the Rats.
it’s become mundane.
mylegsareswollen on August 3, 2008 at 6:30 PM
To paraphrase JFK, if even one person listens to Gergen, then no one is free.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on August 3, 2008 at 6:30 PM
At some point, in the near future, people will begin to figure the truly racist people out there reside on the left side of the aisle. At some point…
Haunchie on August 3, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Again wrong. It’s tactics such as trying to act like Democrats (big government, high spending, amnesty) that causes the Republicans to lose seats in the House and Senate. Gergen is in the words of Robert Novak “a courtier” i.e. a political whore who spreads his legs when he kowtows to anyone who will give him a job - that is the reason why he went to work for Bill Clinton. Gergen is no freaking conservative and if we are neoconservatives then you are neosocialists so STFU with that term Comrade!
Hilts on August 3, 2008 at 6:34 PM
If I was sure I wouldn’t get hurt I would have a t-shirt made that says “I must be racist because I am not going to vote for Him”. Another thing, why does Gergen get to keep saying his a Republican? I guess if you are registered that way it gives you cover for being less than truthful. Love that job security.
Cindy Munford on August 3, 2008 at 6:35 PM
The Dhimmicrats are always a bazillion points ahead this time of year. Then people start to think and then the Republican wins. Now they’re even in the polls which is disaster for Obama.
Mojave Mark on August 3, 2008 at 6:36 PM
And “Gergen” is a cipher for “stupid”.
rplat on August 3, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Take heart and embrace the metaphor!! After all, Moses did NOT make it to the Promised Land. Let us hope the same fate awaits Obama.
jeanie on August 3, 2008 at 6:38 PM
you know, if obama is gonna keep playing the race card over and over again with absolutely no reason, mccain should at least try and have some fun with it and see if he can work in ‘niggardly’ into as many speeches as possible. it would be worth it just for the keith olbermann heart attack.
AdrianG on August 3, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Anybody have a copy of “The Code” that I can borrow? It is hard to keep up with all the new “code words” this season. If I say “Good Morning!” is that “code” for something? I mean, I don’t want to offend someone accidently. I’d much prefer to dso it intentionally.
coldwarrior on August 3, 2008 at 6:42 PM
I think that MOST Americans are perfectly capable of watching a campaign Advertisement on Television and knowing what the heck it’s saying. It’s not rocket science, and we don’t need talking heads going over and over it all the time.
Obama will lose, and I can’t wait to watch the talking heads all turning red hot and near-exploding! Oh, it’s going to be fun!
bridgetown on August 3, 2008 at 6:42 PM
I’m also a native of the south (born and raised in rural Virginia), and I can tell you that David Gergen is full of $h*t.
Who the hell does this tool think he is, presuming to speak for everybody “from a southern background”? Just because you’re a racist doesn’t mean the rest of us are, Gergen.
Stop projecting.
As for racial quotas, the majority of the country opposes them Gergen. And “what that’s about” Gergen, is the majority of Americans rejecting the patronizing, paternalistic Liberal attitude that assumes blacks are incapable of competing with white and Asian-Americans unless they’re given a special government-sponsored advantage. That’s racist, Gergen.
AZCoyote on August 3, 2008 at 6:42 PM
Gergen’s not been one of “our own” for 15 years, maybe longer.
He worked for Nixon & Ford. In 1980, when there was a choice - Conservative Reagan vs. Poppy - Gergen chose the “moderate.”
Gergen is one of those “genteel” Republicans who Democrats can count on to cringe every time they throw the race card on the table.
BD57 on August 3, 2008 at 6:43 PM
Btw Nixon, Ford and GHW Bush were conservatives? Really?? Nixon was one of the most liberal Presidents we ever had domestically and GHW Bush was as centrist as his son was with his compassionate conservatism crap - yeah Mr. Thousand Points of Light, Mr. Education President, Mr. Prudent President - real conservatives, Nixon gave us the EPA, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air Act, Affirmative Action, wage & price controls, the great grain give away, detente with Brezhnev and Mao, yeah a real rightie the man was.
Nixon, Ford and GHW Bush (and for that matter GW Bush) were never “one of us”. Gergen is a Lewinsky giving pleasure to anyone who will hire him. He is as much a consistent conservative as Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough.
Hilts on August 3, 2008 at 6:44 PM
AdrianG on August 3, 2008 at 6:40 PM –
You realize, of course, that a San Francisco City Council member was ridden out of town on a rail for using that word to describe miserly.
So, not only is there a “code” list somewhere that we are not privy to, but we can no longer use Standard English because someone somewhere who is ignorant as dirt doesn’t understand English?
coldwarrior on August 3, 2008 at 6:44 PM
How do you account for Bill Clinton’s two recent victories, mojave?
And then consider Fudge Haus McCain has less of a chance than ol’ Bob Dole had.
alphie on August 3, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Oh just superb,now its Uppity code!
Well,I guess will have to break out the Uppity
degree guage,forget the laser model,its not that
accurate,will use the mechanical one,its accurate
to one degree!
Lets see,Obama looks down on voters and likes to
call women sweetie,so according to my calculations
Obama should be close to English royality uppity!
Lets see,doing the math in my head,and the guage is
around 20 degrees from the nose in a straight line,so
his nose is elevated 20 degrees!
Okay,Gergen is wrong,there is no uppity code present,
but,according to my math,Obama is more uppity then the
royals,and that is a whole lotta uppity,actualy more
uppity than a sane man should possess!
So,Uppity code no,but Obama has way,way,too much Uppity!!
Haha.
canopfor on August 3, 2008 at 6:46 PM
“How do you account for Bill Clinton’s two recent victories…”
The general ignorance of those who voted for him?
coldwarrior on August 3, 2008 at 6:46 PM
Seriously, is it possible to get a more worthless guy on TV than David Gergen? Ugh. This is the guest Sunday morning shows turn to when guys like Leon Panetta and Lincoln Chafee turn them down. Gergen’s politics suck, and beyond that he’s so boring he makes Larry King look like Chris Farley. I can’t even imagine liberals like him.
fiatboomer on August 3, 2008 at 6:48 PM
1. 1992 - Clinton (like Carter in 1976) ran as a centrist and GHW Bush was a RINO who went against his word and raised taxes. Ross Perot also took votes away.
2. 1996 - again Perot and the GOP nominated “the next in line” primogeniture candidate Bob Viagara Dole.
By the way Clinton never got 50% of the vote.
Hilts on August 3, 2008 at 6:50 PM
How do you account.
alphie on Aug 3,2008 at 6:45PM.
alphie:Bill Clintons two recent victories,which two are
those,Monica,or being Impeached? :)
canopfor on August 3, 2008 at 6:50 PM
This entire thread is some kind of raaaaaacist code!
Kinda surprising coming from Gergen, but these days, nothing really surprises me.
JetBoy on August 3, 2008 at 6:51 PM
With all these idiots from Harvard being foisted on us, I am of the mind to cut Harvard off of all federal funds forever. I don’t see any reason to support a school that turns out nothing but sub-standard thinkers who infest our political world. Add to this that pathetic excuse for an argument that Harvard Law made in their laughable attempt to throw the military off campus and I would be happy if Harvard never saw another public dollar again. Let Harvard live on its own or die. I’ve had quite enough of the mediocre minds that come spilling out of Harvard.
progressoverpeace on August 3, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Same reason people who call into talk radio preface an anti-Republican/pro-donk rant with, “I’ve been a faithful Republican all my life,..but,….” For some reason, they think people will believe them. Very similar to alphie claiming he/she is really a conservative.
a capella on August 3, 2008 at 6:53 PM
I’ve a funny feeling that many reporters and others don’t clearly get what race baiting is. I’ve a feeling that David Gergen doesn’t want to know or remember what it is, he just wants to grab some cheap momentary attention. Always the quiet moderate one hungry for air time and inclining on the fence to left or right, not because of some intrinsic moderateness but instead in order to remain influential. Some would call it whoring. One can imagine Gergen privately confessing, while drunk, to being a whore, oh I’m such a whore, but now I’m admitting it, so please do you still like me? Please understand!. Yeah, we get it, whore.
Race baiting 101:
1. Suggest that the other side is playing on race. Keep doing it till the other side fights back lest it become an established factoid.
2. When the other side takes the bait, turn it around on them and shift the blame onto them. At this stage there’s no longer any choice for the race-baiter, who must shift the blame or receive it.
Obama and his campaign are still trying to complete their classic race-baiting maneuver for all to see. It’s disgusting.
Americans, including reporters, and especially David Gergen, shouldn’t imagine that Obama, as president, wouldn’t end up institutionalizing his race-baiting methods, his double- and multi-standards PC minefield (as evoked also in his “A More Perfect Union speech) traversable only by regulationist lawyers like himself, for use against all and sundry. The sundry sundered, divided, each just trying to protect himself or herself, through silence or otherwise.
Maybe that’s Chicago South Side politics but if Obama and Chicago Mayor Daley’s man Axelrod keep carting that garbage to everybody’s door, the USA will reject them pretty soundly. Why would Americans want to install a sleazy, Chicago-built race-baiting machine in the White House?
ForNow on August 3, 2008 at 6:56 PM
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Dr Evil on August 3, 2008 at 6:56 PM
WWOD
What will Obama do!
myamphibian on August 3, 2008 at 6:58 PM
Gergen - the worse “come-over” in the nation.
jake-the-goose on August 3, 2008 at 6:58 PM
?*
myamphibian on August 3, 2008 at 6:59 PM
Gergen just “McCained” McCain.
Y’know, part of me says McCain deserves it.
But the stakes are too high for petty revenge.
SteveMG on August 3, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Interveiw with Mike Medved:
MEDVED: One reason is because there’s been this huge focus recently on so-called neocons. For a lot of people, “neocons” is basically a putdown way of saying Jewish conservatives. I myself am a Jewish conservative, but I don’t consider myself a neocon. So I thought it was worth writing something for those of us, both Jewish and Christian, who might more accurately be described as theocons.
TAE: How do you define the neocon?
MEDVED: As a conservative whose outlook has largely been shaped by religious commitment. One of the things that most irreligious or nonreligious Americans don’t recognize sufficiently is that a huge theme of American religiosity, both Christian and Jewish, is that the individual goes through a rebirth, a recommitment, a return. That kind of transforming religious experience is usually associated with a more conservative political outlook.
So alphie, you’ve finally shown your bigoted colors…again.
Keep your racist the JOOOOOWWWWSSS did it to yourself, or take it to some jew hating web sites. I’m sick of the left using that term without any idea of what it means just to classify all conservatives…or do you know and use it anyway?
1GooDDaDDy on August 3, 2008 at 7:01 PM
I can’t wait till the Leftys discover the
new undetectable unicorn code,and btw,
that unicorn code is played on Red Eye,
the drawing of Unicorn Jones!
Its for the late night operatives!haha!
canopfor on August 3, 2008 at 7:01 PM
I don’t know too much about this code stuff. I am from the south and when I have said stupid stuff it was just that, stupid. And when I said nice stuff that’s what it was. Although I have to admit that the occasional “Bless his/her heart” is code for what a dumb ass. And you have to admit that’s better than laughing at someone.
Cindy Munford on August 3, 2008 at 7:04 PM
Haha, 1goo,
Are Christian Republicans too embarrassed to admit their political affiliations these days?
Or are you ironically using a phony accusation of bigotry in a thread about…
alphie on August 3, 2008 at 7:06 PM
I take offense at Gergen. I was grew up in northern GA, and I don’t get this bullshite about “code words”.
It’s just another way to slander the slack-jawed yokels who are too dumb to vote for them.
Techie on August 3, 2008 at 7:07 PM
Nah, alphie, you guys decided to turn the word “neocon” into a meaningless slur, so it’s pretty much dead now.
Techie on August 3, 2008 at 7:08 PM
Alphie, how’s the Porta-potty watching going? Anybody interesting stop by the week? I hope you’re not back to sniffing the methane! It’s bad for your mental health you know!
TheBigOldDog on August 3, 2008 at 7:11 PM
I was incensed when I saw that discussion on TV this morning. The argument should have been made that suggesting McCain is calling Obama “uppity”, as if to suggest Obama is stepping outside the prescribed limits of behavior for black people, is precisely the problem with what the Obama campaign has been doing.
George Will at least helped make the point that the issue that Obama is elitist is legitimate to raise. However he should have called out the entire premise of the suggestion that Obama is uppity as an attempt to quash debate by playing the race card.
Anonymous on August 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 pm
BryanS on August 3, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Techie,
Neocon = any Republican making a buck off the rise in gas prices or the war in Iraq.
Pretty simple.
alphie on August 3, 2008 at 7:11 PM
The Moses ad had nothing to do with race, but Gergen’s comments were a slam on southerners.
Just because Gergen has some racist sentiments lurking in his own mind doesn’t mean all southerners do. I agree with everyone who says he’s projecting.
forest on August 3, 2008 at 7:12 PM
McCain is playing with fire. So far it appears to have worked for him and he has given Obama a hot foot (drop in the polls), but if he keeps it up he will likely get his hands burned.
MB4 on August 3, 2008 at 7:12 PM
The media gets this schmuck David Gergen when they want the Republican viewpoint - he hasnt been a Republican for over a decade.
Gergen is even more RINO than McCain!
winged on August 3, 2008 at 7:13 PM
Look on the sunny side.
VolMagic on August 3, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Be not disturbed, Allah. No one on the right thinks Gergen isn’t a jerk. But we are mighty encouraged that 44% of blacks are “getting it.” Of all things, we don’t want to be torn apart as a nation, just for the sake of a damn “megalomaniac narcissist” politician.
Nichevo on August 3, 2008 at 7:14 PM
If Gergen is an ad for Harvard “quality”, a lot of students should demand a refund. Further proof that having “Professor” in front of your name does not automatically indicate a certain level of intelligence
Alphie, ain’t it time for your meds?
GarandFan on August 3, 2008 at 7:14 PM
I thought it meant any Jew who believed in a strong defense and in freedom.
Hilts on August 3, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Nonsense he (Gergen) did no such thing. He showed what an irrelevant asshole he (Gergen) is and made those of us who basically dislike Juan McAmnesty more determined to help him win in November. Gergen is 6′5″ of Southern Fried Excrement.
Hilts on August 3, 2008 at 7:20 PM
The left = Changing he true meaning of words and/or phrases to suit their own socialist agenda. Or telling a lie (rewriting history) long enough to give it validity to their own creeping socialist views.
1GooDDaDDy on August 3, 2008 at 7:22 PM
At one time, David Gergen had some credibility in his thoughts, and writings. However, as time has past, he’s become less, and less astute, and IMO, has lost it. Time for pundits, and detractors like Gergen to pack it up!
byteshredder on August 3, 2008 at 7:23 PM
So far, McCain has proven to be quite effective at punching out illegitimate attacks before they take on a life of their own. This racist charge issue will help inoculate him when the Dims pull out their usual playbook later in the campaign that all Republicans are racist. It is about time a Republican fought back on false racism charges.
McCain showed similar skill in killing a number of NY Times bogus scandal storied. I always thought McCain was a tougher candidate than many conservatives gave him credit. If anyone has any doubt, this dressing down by McCain shows precisely why Obama is afraid to be on the same stage as McCain. McCain will eat Obama for lunch if given the platform of a free exchange town hall debate.
BryanS on August 3, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Making a buck off gas prices? Like holding stock? Or mutual funds in a oil company?
Man, is there any bottom to your silliness? Or is it just endless?
SteveMG on August 3, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Exactly. Or if not the secret racial decoder ring, the dog whistle which tells us that McCain’s Paris/Britney ad is racist code.
Buy Danish on August 3, 2008 at 7:25 PM
Yes, but this type of attacking your own side more than your political opponent is what has angered most of us about McCain over the years.
Gergen’s comment is just silly but what we’ve come to expect from the guy.
I mean, as absurd as his comment was, who is really surprised at it?
SteveMG on August 3, 2008 at 7:26 PM
Hilts on August 3, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Neocon = any Republican making a buck off the rise in gas prices or the war in Iraq.
Referring of course to all those Americans whose stock and/or pension plans have money invested in oil, defense, electronics or hardware companies, in short, all of them.
I had no idea there were so many NeoCons™ out there. A shout out to all my bruthuz!
Bishop on August 3, 2008 at 7:33 PM
So you’re including environmentalist groups like Greenpeace who own land from which oil is being produced? Or is it only Republicans who count?
fossten on August 3, 2008 at 7:33 PM
If you saw any racism in that ad it says way more about you than anything.
freedomplow on August 3, 2008 at 7:35 PM
Diane Feinstein will also be chagrined to learn that she too is a hated NeoCon™, what with her husband’s companies being awarded juicy defense contracts.
Bishop on August 3, 2008 at 7:35 PM
A classic example of searching for bones in Animal Crackers.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on August 3, 2008 at 7:35 PM
Sidebar -
Rick Santorum, in his recent interview with Hugh Hewitt, describes how McCain racialized the immigration issue to his fellow Republican senators:
He [McCain] lectured us repeatedly about how xenophobic we were, lectured us, us being the Republican conference, about how wrong we were on this, how we were on the wrong side of history, and that you know, this is important for his . . . because having come from Arizona, knowing the strength of the Hispanic community, that we were going to be seen as racists, and he wasn’t going be part of that, that he was not a racist, and that if we were for tougher borders, it was a racist thing.
- Mark Krikorian
Maybe what goes around will come around. Poetics justice if it does.
MB4 on August 3, 2008 at 7:35 PM
As for the racism charge, I suppose even when your armory has been depleted to the point that all you have left is a slingshot, you still have to take your shot.
Good luck preaching to Americans that we are all a bunch of closet racists if we don’t vote for Baracky.
Bishop on August 3, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Oh yea, Gergen! Well, being pro-choice means you’re an erasist.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on August 3, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Ignore alphie.
Terrye on August 3, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Allapundit nails this one:
The left runs the racist meme when they are really desperate and clueless (even more than usual…)
Obama is not making the sale, especially among likely voters. The Bradey factor applies to Obama “in spades” [/That's 'racist code' for undeniable facts that drive lib/socialists crazy :-) ], since he regularly under-performed in primaries compared to polls.
Add that the democrat congressional leadership is annoying their working class base on gas prices, and the left should be nervous.
The best the left can hope for is for some
alphieass_clown to get republicans to take the bait - as if this “racist code” nonsense was a valid argument.Right_of_Attila on August 3, 2008 at 7:38 PM
So when Obama ran the ad touting his “Kansas values,” what was that code word for? “I’m half white,” maybe? The better half? Subtly telling white voters he’s really not as “black” as they might think?
Wethal on August 3, 2008 at 7:39 PM
If McCain says that being for tougher borders (and that wouldn’t take much) is racist then he should think that ads about an “uppity” black man are also racist.
Fair is fair.
MB4 on August 3, 2008 at 7:40 PM
Glynn on August 3, 2008 at 7:40 PM
well I hit the strike again. Sorry.
Glynn on August 3, 2008 at 7:40 PM
Heres the exchange with Steffenopplis:
(I opologize if I spelled his name wrong!)
“And George,that may be his only strategy just as is McCain
maybe following the only strategy he can follow”!
How the h#ll does Steffy go from codes,to the only way
McCain can run a campaign “the only strategy he can follow!”
Now we have pundits,like Steffy,former Clinton operative
mind you,saying McCain campaign is a racist strategy,WTF!
It seems to me,the Liberal lefty MSM have a pretty good
agenda on the go to elect a Democrat to office,while
really trying awfully hard to paint the Republican Party
as a racist political party!
The MSM have really gone over the line on this one,Gergen
talk’s of code apiritions that don’t exist,and Steffy paints
McCain as the only way to campaign is to talk about colour!
So,along with outdoor speeches from Germany,Obama Team in
co-ordination with the Liberal MSM are painting a false
picture and putting words in the Republican party’s mouth
that they never said!
RNC,its time to respond to this sickening propaganda,and
about like soon,or yesterday!———————-:)
canopfor on August 3, 2008 at 7:40 PM
Most of the socalled racism I have seen in this race thus far has come from the Democrats themselves. This is getting ridiculous. The man wants to be president and he can not even handle a couple of critical ads.
My God, Bush has been called all sorts of names by idiots like alphie here and that is ok. But when one of their own is the target? They cry like babies.
BTW, alphie, Bill Clinton could not manage a clear majority and Obama is not ahead in all the polls.
Terrye on August 3, 2008 at 7:41 PM
Well, He IS uppity… Not because of his half-blackness and wanting to achieve—- but because he has never actually DONE anything worthwhile. He has ‘paid no dues’ like most people that have ever run for President.
He started (obviously, if unoficially) running for president before he was even actually sworn in as a Senator. He never governed a State or even a community or ran a business. A paid political rabble-rouser before becoming an undistinguished State Legislator who became an even less distinguished US Senator.
So, a guy that thinks he should be President based only on his ‘cult of personality’ (and that a false one) and being able to read a teleprompter, makes him about the most ‘upity’ fellow I’ve ever seen on the national/international stage.
LegendHasIt on August 3, 2008 at 7:41 PM
I happen to agree with McCain’s views on immigration, but know the vast majority of those who hold different views are not racist. Whatever the merits of the charge, McCain was correct about the politics–the conservative Republican view on immigration is unfairly perceived as racist by many Hispanics.
BryanS on August 3, 2008 at 7:46 PM
I would like Mr. Gergen who has past campaign experience to describe exactly what a South Chicago “Community Organizer” does exactly. No Code words allowed.
KW64 on August 3, 2008 at 7:47 PM
Lefties are notoroiously thin-skinned. We have seen it time and again. The same rules do not apply to them. They’re just so darn special, regular Stewart Smalley’s,all of em. by golly, they’re good enough, they’re smart enough…blah blah blah. You can’t reconstruct a complete spine from all of them.
Glynn on August 3, 2008 at 7:50 PM
Amazing. Remember the ol’ McNeil/Lehrer Newshour on PBS?
Talking shop about politics, Gergen was the “conservative Repub,” and Mark Shields was the liberal Dem.
Now Gergen is in the tank for the Second Coming, and Mark Shields colors himself skeptical.
silverfox on August 3, 2008 at 7:55 PM
This is really just a replay of the Clintons’ “Politics of personal destruction”.
Dems don’t respond to critisism, they dismiss it as hateful, divisive, personal or racist.
If Hillary were the candidate, she and the BSM would be saying the exact same things, just replace “racist” with “misogynist”.
Rodent on August 3, 2008 at 7:58 PM
There were none. McCain was calling other Republicans racist (and xenophobic). How quickly some we forget.
MB4 on August 3, 2008 at 8:01 PM
I see where Obama now wants all the Florida and Michigan delegates seated at the Convention. IF he has already sewn up the nomination and his followers have convinced the MSM that he is gonig to win in November…why does he need this extra boost? I am waiting for tomorrow’s tracking polls, and especially the internals. Around here, Obama is tanking. McCain isn’t making any sort of jump, but the local Obama lead is gone…completely.
coldwarrior on August 3, 2008 at 8:04 PM
Who else remembers when David Gergen was PBS’s “conservative voice” on the MacNeil/Lerher news hour? I always thought his points were weak and did not represent conservative thought. I didn’t care if he had a good history with conservative credentials, he was not an effective speaker for conservatives. I have not been at all surprised by what Gergen has said or who he has supported for the past 10 years.
Now I know why PBS picked him, he was the weakest person they could find to act as a foil to Mark Shields. Thanks for your “balanced reporting” PBS!!
conservative educator on August 3, 2008 at 8:05 PM
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